A preliminary metaphorical gazing on organisational stories by Che Mahzan Ahmad

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From matter to spirit: metaphors of enlightenment in Bhagavad-gītā by Kumaran Rajandran

“…The article examines the use of metaphors in a prominent Hindu scripture named Bhagavadgītā. …”
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Conceptual metaphor in meditation discourse: an analysis of the spiritual perspective by Silvestre-López, Antonio-José

“…Results chart the topics that are addressed more frequently through metaphor in the corpus (metaphor target domains), describe the range of areas of experience (source domains) used to characterise metaphorically the three most frequent target domains (THOUGHT, THE PRESENT MOMENT, MEDITATOR), and discuss fundamental differences in non-deliberate and deliberate conceptual metaphor use with the help of a selection of examples from the corpus. …”
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Metaphors as ideological constructs for identity in Malaysian short stories by Ravichandran Vengadasamy

“…This paper illustrates how writers use metaphors as constructs of ideology. The paper is based on a study of two short stories that posit LAND as a metaphor for IDENTITY. …”
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Persian culinary metaphors: a cross-cultural conceptualization by Zahra Khajeh, Imran-Ho-Abdullah

“…Studies concerning the metaphorical use of language deal with metaphorical units from two particular perspectives: a mapping from one cognitive domain to another domain, and a grounding of the mapping as a reflection within image schema. …”
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John Donne's metaphors of self and empire: a cognitive analysis by Sohrabi, Zohreh, Pirnajmuddin, Hossein

“…Lakoff and Johnson's discussion about the basic metaphors embedded in our childhood by which we conceptualise the notion of self presents the cognitive bases of Donne's different metaphors of self. …”
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Parasites, herbivores and dried fish: dehumanising metaphorical blends in Japanese by Prazmo, Ewelina Maria, Augustyn, Rafal

“…In the context of a vast body of research on the role and function of conceptual metaphor in linguistic representation of non-dominant or non-normative social groups, the present paper deals with metaphorical blending found in a number of expressions used to describe deliberately single people forming part of the Japanese society. …”
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What ‘Corona War’ metaphor means in Iranian political discourse by Aliakbar Imani

“…This study drew upon Lakoff & Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory as its theoretical background, and the analysis of the speeches was comprised of metaphor identification using the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) and metaphor interpretation. …”
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The comprehension of metaphorical expressions in academic texts by Iraqi EFL learners by Al-Mashhadani, Omar Ahmed Badr, Ravichandran Vengadasamy

“…Metaphor is so pervasive in language use that we hardly come across a language situation that does not utilise metaphors. …”
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Mystical love metaphors: a cognitive analysis of Sohrab Sepehri’s poetry by Sareh Jaberi, Imran-Ho-Abdullah, Ravichandran Vengadasamy

“…Metaphor in poetic texts has been discussed from different perspectives. …”
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Aesthetics in the relationship of conceptual metaphors and cultural models in the translation of Rubayyat of Khayyam by Panahbar, Ehsan, Hesabi, Akbar, Pirnajmuddin, Hussein

“…Mandelblit’s cognitive translation hypothesis investigates the translatability of metaphors at the conceptual level by considering two possible alternatives of same mapping condition (SMC) and different mapping condition (DMC) facing translators. …”
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Metaphor and the representations of health and illness among the Semai indigenous community in Malaysia by Lisbeth Sinan Lendik, Chan, Mei Yuit, Sumathi Renganathan, Yap, Ngee Thai

“…Metaphors were identified and analysed following Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) conceptual metaphor theory that explains how people understand one idea in a conceptual domain through accessing resources in another conceptual domain. …”
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The polarity of war metaphors in sports news: a corpus-informed analysis by Tan, Kim Hua, Hamdi Khalis, Nur-Ehsan Mohd-Said, Ong, Song Howe

“…War metaphors have long been used in sports news reporting. …”
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Rendering happiness metaphors: a cognitive analysis from persian into English by Safarnejad, Fatemeh, Imran-Ho-Abdullah, Norsimah Mat Awal

“…Subsequently, the conceptual metaphors underlying the metaphorical expressions in the source text and the target texts were investigated based upon the metaphor identification procedures (MIP), proposed by the Pragglejaz group (2007) and general framework of the conceptual metaphor theory (CMT). …”
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Thinking cancer metaphorically: a sociocultural perspective study on the cancer patients’ narratives by Liaw, Monica Kah-Pei, Collin Jerome

“…While much research has been carried out on examining the different types of metaphors used by cancer patients, much more needs to be known about the metaphors used by them in relation to their sociocultural background and cognition. …”
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A corpus-based study on snake metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and British English by Wei, Lixia, Wong, Bee Eng

“…Via exploring snake metaphors across the two languages within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the GREAT CHAIN METAPHOR, this study aims to identify the existence of both universality and individuality of metaphors cross-linguistically when the snake is mapped onto human beings. …”
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War heroes, terrorists, freedom fighters and fragile economy: from metaphors to ‘WMDs’ by Faridah Ibrahim, Emma Mirza Wati Mohamad

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A metaphoric rhetorical criticism on Aminuddin Baki’s speech: some preliminary findings by Dil Froz Jan Sayed Halem Shah, Abdul Muati @ Zamri Ahmad, Hamisah Hasan, Rosya Izyanie Shamshudeen, Faridah Ibrahim

“…Metaphors are used to amplify meanings in one’s speech. …”
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Emotional temperament in food-related metaphors: a cross-cultural account of the conceptualisations of ANGER by Zahra Khajeh, Imran Ho Abdullah, Kim, Hua Tan

“…Calling into question the strong claims of ‘embodiment’ as an underlying motivation for emerging specific metaphorical concepts by Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999; Lakoff and Kövecses 1987), the close investigation of metaphorical uses of food-related concepts in Persian manifests that, in spite of some correspondences to those in English, ANGER metaphorical concepts are distinctive. …”
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A long battle ahead: Malaysian and Singaporean Prime Ministers employ war metaphors for COVID-19 by Kumaran Rajandran

“…The analysis of the broadcasts is comprised of metaphor identification using the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP), and metaphor interpretation. …”
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